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Sure, we've always been humanitarians, willing to help out people in need

from your link:

In a press release from the State Department dated Feb. 7, the agency announced it was prepared to spend up to $100 million to assist China as the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths continued to rise there.

How much assistance did YOUR country give China when it was struggling to contain the China Virus?

Apparently it would have been asking too much for this President to have connected the dots, taken the advice of his intelligence community, and taken the necessary steps to dramatically increase the production of medical protective gear and ventilators!

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Ok, I wanted to give you guys an update on the engineering project. After our first meeting we decided that trying to create a machine to squeeze a Bag Valve Mask is very complicated. It's more than just having a machine squeeze the bag. That is very simple actually. But this machine would need to have a data feedback system that would get hooked into a hospital room's monitoring system. This is very involved and complex. It would require electronics and software. The engineering development would take a long time. It would basically require that we create a startup company and work on it full time.

So we decided to go on another path. We have decided to modify a CPAP device to ventilation. CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) is a type of machine used by people with sleep apnea.

Our goal to modify a CPAP machine so it operates as a true ventilator.

I'll keep you all posted.

Your problem is not technology. The problem is YOU. You lack the will to change...You treat this planet as you treat each other. - Klaatu

What are you talking about? There is no such thing as the "Mafia"......it doesn't exist. Just a bunch of lies told to defame honest hardworking Italians like myself. - TomO
I will do you, let's see, goofy, wacky, and to the left side of the bell curve. -Ktoyou

I'm white. I'm not black. I can't convert to being black. It doesn't matter how much I want to become black. I could listen to rap and date fat white women all day; for all that, I'll still remain white.- Traditio

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Ok, I wanted to give you guys an update on the engineering project. After our first meeting we decided that trying to create a machine to squeeze a Bag Valve Mask is very complicated. It's more than just having a machine squeeze the bag. That is very simple actually. But this machine would need to have a data feedback system that would get hooked into a hospital room's monitoring system. This is very involved and complex. It would require electronics and software. The engineering development would take a long time. It would basically require that we create a startup company and work on it full time.

So we decided to go on another path. We have decided to modify a CPAP device to ventilation. CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) is a type of machine used by people with sleep apnea.

Our goal to modify a CPAP machine so it operates as a true ventilator.

I'll keep you all posted.

Such continuous positive airway pressure (Cpap) devices, which are being used extensively in hospitals in Italy and China, bridge the gap between an oxygen mask and full ventilation. UK hospitals have the apparatus but it is in short supply.

Engineers from UCL and doctors at University College London hospital (UCLH) developed the device, which is claimed to be an improvement on existing Cpap systems, with Mercedes Formula One in less than 100 hours from first meeting to first production model. The device has been approved by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

“These devices will help to save lives by ensuring that ventilators, a limited resource, are used only for the most severely ill,” said Prof Mervyn Singer, a UCLH critical care consultant who worked on the design.

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Ok, I wanted to give you guys an update on the engineering project. After our first meeting we decided that trying to create a machine to squeeze a Bag Valve Mask is very complicated. It's more than just having a machine squeeze the bag. That is very simple actually. But this machine would need to have a data feedback system that would get hooked into a hospital room's monitoring system. This is very involved and complex. It would require electronics and software. The engineering development would take a long time. It would basically require that we create a startup company and work on it full time.

So we decided to go on another path. We have decided to modify a CPAP device to ventilation. CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) is a type of machine used by people with sleep apnea.

I say you're Canadian - it's easy enough to verify, any of the moderators can take a quick peek at your ISP

Perhaps this Forum would prefer not to set the precedent of allowing one member to arrange for "Theology Online" to release the personal information of another so that he can continue with his personal vendetta to silence him!

Those who share my political views might also be questioning as to what it takes for the Moderators of this Forum to step in and put an end to this nonstop harassment in an attempt to silence a 13 year member!

In marked contrast to others I could mention, I actually take the time to research most of my responses and try to introduce new information, rather than just posting for the sake of posting - examples Post 112, 113!

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Such continuous positive airway pressure (Cpap) devices, which are being used extensively in hospitals in Italy and China, bridge the gap between an oxygen mask and full ventilation. UK hospitals have the apparatus but it is in short supply.

Engineers from UCL and doctors at University College London hospital (UCLH) developed the device, which is claimed to be an improvement on existing Cpap systems, with Mercedes Formula One in less than 100 hours from first meeting to first production model. The device has been approved by the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

“These devices will help to save lives by ensuring that ventilators, a limited resource, are used only for the most severely ill,” said Prof Mervyn Singer, a UCLH critical care consultant who worked on the design.

The British have just invented a valve that when attached to a compressed air supply can act like a ventilator - I suspect that it was intended to be used in conjunction with a CPAP machine?

Google it under Project Pitlane!

Sweet! Thank you for sharing this. I've already passed the info to our team leader.

Your problem is not technology. The problem is YOU. You lack the will to change...You treat this planet as you treat each other. - Klaatu

What are you talking about? There is no such thing as the "Mafia"......it doesn't exist. Just a bunch of lies told to defame honest hardworking Italians like myself. - TomO
I will do you, let's see, goofy, wacky, and to the left side of the bell curve. -Ktoyou

I'm white. I'm not black. I can't convert to being black. It doesn't matter how much I want to become black. I could listen to rap and date fat white women all day; for all that, I'll still remain white.- Traditio

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Sweet! Thank you for sharing this. I've already passed the info to our team leader.

I suspect that the United Kingdom market will be purchasing all of the models that this British-based consortium rolls off the assembly line tor the foreseeable future if their invention performs as advertised - this would certainly provide a more cost efficient alternate for those less severe cases, freeing up the limited number of ventilator,s to be reserved for those higher risk patients!

This would also mean that if an American-based company, such as yours, were to invent a similar product and/or enter into an agreement with this UK consortium to produce the same product, that would leave them with virtually all of North American market to themselves - at least in the short term!

For a company to turn a profit in the middle of a pandemic by producing a product, that would virtually sell itself to hospitals and governments, could be the opportunity of a lifetime - not to mention all the positive media coverage and the accolades from a grateful nation (and President) for lives saved!

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COVID-19 strikes my family again. This time a nephew of mine through marriage (he's the son of my wife's brother) who lives in NYC contracted COVID-19. But, thankfully, he recovered from the virus and is doing well now.

Your problem is not technology. The problem is YOU. You lack the will to change...You treat this planet as you treat each other. - Klaatu

What are you talking about? There is no such thing as the "Mafia"......it doesn't exist. Just a bunch of lies told to defame honest hardworking Italians like myself. - TomO
I will do you, let's see, goofy, wacky, and to the left side of the bell curve. -Ktoyou

I'm white. I'm not black. I can't convert to being black. It doesn't matter how much I want to become black. I could listen to rap and date fat white women all day; for all that, I'll still remain white.- Traditio

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COVID-19 strikes my family again. This time a nephew of mine through marriage (he's the son of my wife's brother) who lives in NYC contracted COVID-19. But, thankfully, he recovered from the virus and is doing well now.

I'm glad he recovered. I'm afraid many more here will have relatives of friends who get infected before this is over.